Binge-watched Barakamon, and you can tell I really really REALLY liked it because that's the only time I ever binge-watch anything.

And since all the shows that are usually on my 'Top' list were all binge-watched.... yes, I really really loved Barakamon. It's the kind of show I can pop in at any time, watch, and immediately feel satisfied. It's the kind of anime you can also show to anyone and it won't confuse them or require them to understand anime logic in any way, so it's infinitely shareable.

Binge-watched Barakamon, and you can tell I really really REALLY liked it because that's the only time I ever binge-watch anything.

And since all the shows that are usually on my 'Top' list were all binge-watched.... yes, I really really loved Barakamon. It's the kind of show I can pop in at any time, watch, and immediately feel satisfied. It's the kind of anime you can also show to anyone and it won't confuse them or require them to understand anime logic in any way, so it's infinitely shareable.

Until you get to the Barakamon black seaslug episode, gets weird for a little bit during that part.

Magic Kaito is interesting because it's essentially like Lupin III, except not as...fanservicey? I guess. Conan shows up in a couple of episdoes/ arcs, which is weird, but makes sense seeing as how both of them were drawn/made by the same person. Give it a shot, ti's not too bad.

GEKKAN SHOUJO NEEDS A SECOND SEASON

Had your fun? -Xigbar, Kingdom Hearts, 358/2 Days
It's all about style. -Me
The AWESOME can not be TAUGHT! You must FEEL it! -SleepDepJoel on teaching awesome
I got voodoo. I got hoodoo. I got things I ain't even tried! And I got friends on the other side. -Dr. Facilier
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Rewatched The Big-O. The more I rewatch this, the more hints of the foreshadowing from earlier episodes I see and the more I learn. I mostly get the entire picture now (or as far as was hinted), but that doesn't stop it from receiving 50 What-The-Fucks out of 10.

Also, R. Dorothy was able to move in the final episode without her core because love.

TL;DR Log Horizon 2 seems to suffer a little from sequilitis due to less content and different manner of telling story arcs. Still a strong anime, just not as strong as season 1. Kyokai no Kanata is a really strong slice of life shounen (if that makes sense) even if the ending was total bullshit.

Log Horizon Wall of text

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The main gripe that I had with Log Horizon 2 is that there is definitely more filler this time round than the first season. Then again, it's easy to say that considering Log Horizon 1 had maybe 1 episode of filler, while Log Horizon had at least 1.5 episodes of filler (I think the speech episode was entirely unneeded and the Kanami episode is a bit filler, but it eventually points back to the main plot). In addition, there are parts where the animation quality wasn't as good as last season, and the real life transitions are really weird due to how they drew the eyes (they work around it though). Finally, the way the arcs are presented do not really flow well into each other. They seem more like separate stories than they are continuous arcs.

On the other hand, I really like how Log Horizon 2 is handling some of the aspects of modern MMOS (unlike some other virtual MMO anime). For example, it explores the possibility of a character having alts, having a character be a different gender than they actually are, and what I think is really interesting are the protrayal of bot characters that you see in games. Oh and I really liked both the Magic bag arc and the Akagutsgi arc (Don't even say it ducky)

Overall, I would say give S2 a try if you liked S1 but watch it with a grain of salt.

this is where the Kanata wall of text would be, I don't think I need to elaborate more on what's been said on the TL;DR other than the animation of beautiful

Had your fun? -Xigbar, Kingdom Hearts, 358/2 Days
It's all about style. -Me
The AWESOME can not be TAUGHT! You must FEEL it! -SleepDepJoel on teaching awesome
I got voodoo. I got hoodoo. I got things I ain't even tried! And I got friends on the other side. -Dr. Facilier
A Year to Remember: Soul...Killed with the Fan :3http://www.tf2items.com/id/SoldatLight

Watched The Last: Naruto the Movie, which aside from being an awesome title is a title that is arguably a total lie. I would have also called it Hinata: the Movie or Naruto on the Moon. And boy, do I have a LOT to say about this one.

I've seen a lot of Naruto movies and let me tell you: Naruto movies mostly suck. Sure there are some kickass action sequences with actual budget, but nothing you won't get elsewhere. What struck me about this one though is how quiet and reserved it is on the first 3/5's. It's so freaking weird. There's a lot of silent moments where it's just atmosphere building and a lot of gorgeous backdrops of Konohagakure's cityscape and inner workings.

As my alternate title implied, there's a lot of Hinata in this one. With Naruto finally getting the respect he deserves, many of Konoha's young impressionables adore and crush on him. Though it seems like Hinata is in for some competition, that part of the story is actually on Naruto's perspective. Having been resented his entire life, he doesn't understand or react well to both his newfound fame or the meaning of both adoration and love. In a sense, that's the foundation the entire film rests on: Hinata's desire to finally reveal everything that has been building up about her feelings, and Naruto coming to terms between the difference between merely 'liking' something and 'loving' someone.

I love the visual metaphor of Hinata's scarf as the film continues. A lot of the film's quiet moments are built on these, and it works. You can see Hinata's scarf getting longer and longer, eventually being destroyed (of course), but continued to be worked on until near the end of the movie.

Spoiler:

At the end, the scarf never makes it to Naruto, having been destroyed a second and final time. So despite all the visuals for the movie showing him with the scarf, he technically never actually wears it the entire film.

And I say 'technically' because it was no longer necessary. The scarf was supposed to be a gift that was a physical representation of her feelings. With both their feelings out in the open, the gift is no longer needed. And in the end, while passing through the dream-state that connects the earth to the moon (don't ask), Naruto wears a symbolic version of it that was longer than any she had ever knitted as they go through a nostalgic trip of their past adventures.

If I had any complaints about this film, is that it had to be Naruto film. Action scenes had to be here, cameos, an appearance of his Nine-Tailed superform, and whatnot... but they all only served to make the film weaker. This is one of those movies that didn't require a villain, and even less someone to go and kidnap Hinata just so she can be rescued several times. Also, the villain wanting to marry her was just too 'Western Romcom' terrible.

And though I complain about the fighting, at least we get to hear THESE again:

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That's right. It's the original theme AND action theme, back in action. Jeezuz, that brought back memories.

All in all, this was undoubtedly the best Naruto movie I've seen so far. It's great to see Naruto and Hinata's relationship be developed because honestly that epilogue was terrible at that (and a lot of other things). The ending credits actually shows their wedding in stills, and there's even a stinger after the full credits are over. If you like Naruto then you shouldn't miss this one.

While making a sandwich at 11 PM, I caught an episode of Sword Art Online II on Toonami. From that one episode and scattered plotlines throughout the other nonsense I've seen, I'm gonna try and summarize the whole purpose of it, and then my take on the episode I saw and how it relates.

Okay, so basically there's main male character and female supporting character. Both of them get interested in this MMO thing which I guess is one of those virtual reality MMOs, since the first scene I saw was too "real-life" to me. Now, somewhere along those lines, I absolutely remember the whole "they get trapped in the game and if you die in the game, you die for real" kind of things, and I'm guessing that's still there, so death is still really bad. There's also the usual "here's a pack of friends with different personalities" trope that every anime does nowadays, and also fanservice every now and then. If I recall, there was also this MMOFPS thing they did, but that might be a tangent of the same series, I don't know.

Now, the episode. Basically, there was some giant space elephant that the main people saved from a four-armed ogre guy, and it turns out that saving it was a good idea because it flew them to a hidden dungeon where there's phat loot involving a legendary sword at the beginning of that episode. Then the game says "Oh hey, those giant elephants are bad and we're assigning a quest RIGHT NOW for you to beat them up." Everyone else does it because quests are cool, but the main guys don't because they know the space elephant is cool in their books. They say a lot of MMO talk about it in their guild base thing (yet they didn't say "fully specced" once), and then they go to the place. Some kind of faction war is going on between four-armed ogres and the space elephants. Main guys are sad, but they still wanna hit up the awesome sword dungeon. They hit up the awesome sword dungeon, but then they encounter some kinda NPC fairy queen that isn't an NPC, but an "AI" instead which is probably complete bullshit. The queen says some plot and there's lotsa Norse stuff in it, but basically, don't let the space elephants die and finish the dungeon first. Also, here's a pendant that tells you when you're fucked. Lastly, there was also fanservice.

From what I've seen, this arc I seem to have encountered is basically Ragnarok Online if it were virtual reality. Too much Norse and MMO terminology to not relate it to RO. Also, it totally rips off .hack//sign. Tell me if I'm somehow really correct or not. Might actually be kinda interested in this.

From what I've seen, this arc I seem to have encountered is basically Ragnarok Online if it were virtual reality. Too much Norse and MMO terminology to not relate it to RO. Also, it totally rips off .hack//sign. Tell me if I'm somehow really correct or not. Might actually be kinda interested in this.

I have not touched upon SAO 2, but from what I remember from one episode, yesish. Honestly I think it's really stupid how they seem to be in a new virtual world every half season.

Also my excuse for not posting here is not watching as much anime. I did watch Yahari, but I want to wait until S2 before I do the full review and the main fansubbers that I'm interested in (thank you FFF) has had major issues trying to get people to actually translate it, and the fansubbers that have done S1 on my drive aren't doing S2. The other anime I was interested in also interested in has virtually no fansubbers as well, and I don't trust Crunchyroll/HorribleSubs.

Had your fun? -Xigbar, Kingdom Hearts, 358/2 Days
It's all about style. -Me
The AWESOME can not be TAUGHT! You must FEEL it! -SleepDepJoel on teaching awesome
I got voodoo. I got hoodoo. I got things I ain't even tried! And I got friends on the other side. -Dr. Facilier
A Year to Remember: Soul...Killed with the Fan :3http://www.tf2items.com/id/SoldatLight

Halfway through Part 3: Stardust Crusaders of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Jotaro isn't even remotely near as fun to watch as Joseph, and it feels like it slowed to a crawl compared to the whirlwind speed of the first two JoJos. Nonetheless fun to watch, and these adventures are rightfullly BIZARRE AS HELL.

Spoiler:

Like the part where they entered a ghost ship that was actually created by the power of an evil orangutan who creeps on underage girls in showers and reads Playboy but is also one of the main antagonist's minions who is a vampire wearing the body of the original JoJo after cutting his head off and sinking into the ocean for a hundred years.